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Peter D. Abayomi

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Living in time🪔
@eranjijeproject X @batajamsession
Beauty from Imperfect: Hands Saving the Earth at @altshift.festival 20.7 - 27.7 2026

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a year ago

ENCOUNTERS - OPEN STUDIO

Peter D. Abayomi & Lương Huệ Trinh
@iam_peterbata | @luong_hue_trinh

Sound • Ritual • Performance

What happens when artists meet through listening?

Come through for ENCOUNTERS, an open studio session exploring what can emerge when artists meet through sound, movement, ritual, improvisation, and shared presence.

Born from a recent encounter in Nigeria between Lagos-based multidisciplinary artist and composer Peter D. Abayomi, and Vietnamese multimedia composer, sound artist, and electro-acoustic improviser Lương Huệ Trinh, marking her first performance in Nigeria.

Instead of finished works, we’re opening up our process — the questions, experiments, gestures, sounds, and exchanges shaping how the work is made.

ENCOUNTERS invites you into a space of making and listening — what happens when we truly listen to one another, when artistic traditions from different regions meet in the vastness of the universe?

Featured artist - @made_dignity_ @mikie_tblow @godilon_0 @kukustrings_official_

Visual projection by: @simx.xr

🗓️: 25th September 2026
📍: 12 Odunsi street Off Bariga Lagos
⏰: 5:30PM

Come listen with us. Come into the process.

#EncountersLagos #OpenStudio #SoundArtLagos #LagosArtScene #experimentalsound taken in Lagos, Nigeria by @iam_peterbata

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🤟 Today, 11.09, my 11th day in Nigeria, I had a truly inspiring conversation with this talented multidisciplinary Yoruba artist, @iam_peterbata. Can't wait to dive deeper into Nigerian culture. 😃😃 taken in Ikoyi, Lagos, Nigeria by @iam_peterbata

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On 21st July 2026, the Eran Jije Ensemble performed at the German Consulate Lagos reception dinner in honour of @aussenminister @auswaertigesamt - German Federal Minister for Foreign Affairs.

To have our music in that room, and leave an impact, means everything.

We shared the evening with other dignitaries from Lagos cultural sector, business community, politics, and the diplomatic corps.

It was a great honour to be part of the celebrations of German-Nigerian cooperation - driving commercial investments, exploring business partnerships, and strengthening cultural exchange.

Shout out to @falanamusic and @jiiresmith for filling the room with your incredible voices

And thank you to @ekohotels for the warm hospitality. taken in Eko Hotels and Suites by @iam_peterbata

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Forging a community for collective survival does not mean retreating into priviliged eco-villages on the outskirts of the capitalist system. It means breaking dependency from extractivist, exploitative and neocolonial supply chains that is profiting on the backs of the global majority. How can the North de-center itself, relinquish imperial privilege, and become a genuine partner in building a multipolar, ecological civilisation? We will practice anti-opression and use power-critical tools to unlearn and deconstruct, while focusing on building a global, anti-colonial network for redistribution.

Swipe to learn more about our 2 amazing delinking workshops by @mihosoon and @iam_peterbata 🍉🗑️💰

In this open-source and upcycling workshop, Peter D. Abayomi invites participants to become active creators, thinkers, and change-makers by exploring the hidden stories behind everyday waste. Rooted in the theme Beauty from Imperfection: Hands Saving the Earth, the workshop encourages participants to see discarded materials not as useless, but as powerful tools for creativity, expression, and environmental action. Working with waste fabrics, offcuts, second-hand garments, plastics, paper, bags, cans, flip flops, cables, and found objects sourced in Freie Feldlage alongside materials transported from Lagos, participants will investigate how waste travels across the world, how these movements reflect deeper inequalities between the Global North and Global South, revealing the urgent need of accountability.

Money is inherently an emotional topic - up to 90% of financial behaviors are made emotionally. It is also connected to class, race, power - in both intimate personal and collective experiences. As it is also one of the biggest taboos in Western society, this combination makes it one of the most charged topics in political organizing and movement building spaces. Talking about money can be difficult, latent with projections and shame, and yet it is more important than ever, when the far right control the majority of the world’s resources, and AI and conflict throw us all into financially uncertain world. In this two part workshop, Miho Soon brings her research about fin taken in Freie Feldlage by @iam_peterbata

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⚠️ Please note: The Circular Heroes workshop has unfortunately been cancelled due to visa issues.

As part of THE LAND REMEMBERS exhibition, Peter D. Abayomi @iam_peterbata will host the Circular Heroes workshop on the last day of the exhibition 2 June at GlogauAir Berlin @glogauair. Participants are asked to bring their own discarded materials and will receive instructions on methods such as embroidery, applique, and weaving, and experimentally apply them to pre-made printed textiles aiming to visualise waste objects as “activated objects” and portraying local Nigerian teenagers from the Isale Akoka area in Bariga as key players in the circular economy.

The first iterations of the Circular Heroes workshop were hosted by Rafael Kouto @rafaelkouto in collaboration with Peter D. Abayomi @iam_peterbata at Eran Jije Studio @eranjijeproject in Bariga, at G.A.S. Foundation @gasfoundation in Lagos, Nigeria, and Maison Shift @maisonshift in Zürich, Switzerland.

When: 2 June, 2-5pm
Finissage starting at 6pm.
Where: GlogauAir, Berlin

#TheLandRemembers #DADDYMagazine #GroupExhibition by @iam_peterbata

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Meet the artists for THE LAND REMEMBERS!

Peter D. Abayomi @iam_peterbata, founder Eran Jije Project @eranjijeproject is a multidisciplinary artist based in Lagos, Nigeria exploring performance driven work, sound, upcycling practices, public art and materiality concepts within urban context of Lagos through a dynamic and community based approach.

Limited edition prints from CIRCULAR HEROES are available for purchase at the exhibition and via our online shop. The project CIRCULAR HEROES is a collaboration between fashion designer Rafael Kouto @rafaelkouto and Peter D. Abayomi’s @iam_peterbata Eran Jije Project @eranjijeproject, photographed by Ruby Okoro @rubyokoro, that documents Nigerian adolescents from the coastal community of Isale Akoka in Bariga as key players of the circular economy. The proceeds will go directly towards supporting the local Nigerian teenagers from the Isale Akoka area in the Bariga community at the heart of this project.

Link in bio to our online shop! 🛒

#TheLandRemembers #GroupExhibition #DADDYMagazine by @iam_peterbata

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enuntiatio.praefatio.formulae I. & II.
RESIDENCY PROGRAM FOR ARTISTIC RESEARCH IN MUSIC
[November 2025 - June 2026]

This week in enuntiatio.praefatio.formulae. I. & II. programs, researchers Yu Chinen, Kino Lopes, Lorenzo Orsenigo, Peter D. Abayomi, Jonas Gerigk, Gabriel Lucian Roman, Paweł Siek, Angelina Tarlovskaia, Liburn Jupolli, Olga Krashenko, Ariadna Ortega, Justin Wells, and James Diggory Wood presented their work.

Public lectures by participants will be held at Bled Contemporary Music Week, June 22–26, 2026, Bled, Slovenia.

To join the program, see link in the bio section.

#musicology #composition #research #music #philosophy by @iam_peterbata

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6 months ago

Lagos Demolition Impact - LEAVING NOTHING UNREMEMBERED

We remember that we were here.
Our blood, labor, spirits, bones, deities, bodies, memories, footsteps, languages, cultures, tribes, voices, and forms of urban life animated this land.
 The land does not forget.
 We shall carry this memory forward. Bariga, Oworo, and Makoko custodians built and sustained this community long before now.

#LetThePoorBreathe #ForcefulEviction #LagosDemolition #CoastalCommunities #WaterfrontStories by @iam_peterbata

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9 months ago

Lagos Demolition Impact - Making the POOR POORER.

As citizens of the world, we feel erased from the city we call home. Stripped of our settlement in Lagos landscape, its urban planning, and its imagined future, we are treated not as custodians of the city, but as intruders within it.

The government’s intention appears heartbreakingly clear: to wipe out every waterfront settlement in Lagos without any plan for resettlement, compensation, or alternative housing. Families are rendered homeless overnight. Parents are left unable to provide. Children are denied the space to dream. Entire communities are pushed into unbearable suffering, their lives shattered in an instant.

Lagos continues to expand and modernize, yet this so-called progress deliberately excludes the poor, pushing them deeper into poverty. For more than twelve months, waves of demolitions and forced land seizures have torn through coastal communities across the city. Over 150,000 people have been displaced. Homes, personal belongings, and livelihoods have been reduced to ashes. More than 20 lives have been lost. Floating schools have been destroyed, and businesses wiped out.

Today, children wake up without classrooms, unsecured, and without hope, left knee-deep in mud and uncertainty, abandoned by a system meant to protect them.

Is this what they truly call DEVELOPMENT?

#letthepoorbreathe #lagosdemolition #coastal #waterfront #bariga #oworo #makoko by @iam_peterbata

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A Lagos Shared Realities - DEMOLITION HITS #BARIGA

#letthepoorbreathe #lagosdemolition #coastal #waterfront by @iam_peterbata

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Feeling grateful! Happy New Year🎈to everyone. Wishing y’all a strong and positive start to the year ahead. by @iam_peterbata

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